Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

 
4. emphasis on lifelong education 
5. problem of educating children 
from families of immigrants, 
ethnic minorities 
 
5. support courses as prevention 
against unemployment 
 
Application Tasks 
1. Explain the difference: Ch. Vorlíček (1994) describes school as an 
educational institution next to family, facilities of alternative care, 
organisations of children and youth, cultural and educational institutions. 
For Vorlíček, school is primarily an educational institution because its 
social function is mostly to educate (while family and leisure-time 
organisations also perform other functions, which is why he brands them 
as secondary educational institutions). Taking another perspective, Z. 
Helus presents school as a secondary educational environment (Helus, 
2007).
2. Observation 
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Write down the course of a lesson from the perspective of its 
temporal and content structure. 

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Interview the teacher about educational achievements and problems 
with contemporary children. (In what aspects of education are they 
successful and which educational problems they deal with most?) 
3. Text of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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What priorities in education does 
o the minister of education define in his speech? 
o the president define in his New Year’s speech? 
4. Find: 
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the international documents on which local education documents are 
based. 
5. Read the Education Act, see the website of msmtcr.cz. 
6. Follow the current issues and problems dealt with by contemporary 
schools and state authorities and give a presentation on them during the 
seminar.
7. Read about the development of education of teachers in the Czech 
Republic in the history of pedagogy. Make an extract from the texts by 
R. Váňová, In Vališová, Kasíková, 2011. 
8. Read about one alternative school and present more detailed information 
about it at the seminar.